Yesterday Chris & Tim went off to our local hardware shop and brought back the required Floetrol, silicon spray and some white acrylic paint so I could start thinking about doing some acrylic pours. This technique has been in my head for a while now so it was good to finally settle in for a bit of a play...Chris was prompting me from quite early on this morning to get in and get on with it...this art form seems to appeal to him even more than me...

The preparation was mainly about protecting the craft room from spills, drips and other minor catastrophes...to do this Tim produced a rather huge thin plastic drop sheet which would have covered the table top area several times over. Chris found plenty of newspapers for around the floor...I didn't want to risk slipping on the plastic.

Plastic drink cups, wooden tongue depressors,, the paint bin, water and a drinking straw, the few canvas panels I had in my stash, a large foil tray, some pushpins for panel elevators and we were good to go...that is after Chris spent ten minutes shaking up the Floetrol container...I almost used it without doing so, fortunately I thought to check and realised that yes indeedy...it did need a very good shake up before use.

The very first 5 x 7 panel was a dirty pour. We limited ourselves to just a few colours and white, plus a little gold and all the pieces we made this morning were made from various combinations of those mixed colours.

This was taken after we had finished the pours and were cleaning up...the first pour we made is the one directly behind the youghurt bucket on the left side...it has more dark blue and white than any subsequent piece...

In all we made three 5 x 7 panels, one 10 x 15 and four small 3 inch squares. As well, I was determined not to waste any of the paint if I could avoid it and so used the run off from each larger piece we made on one of the little square panels. I simply used my paint spatula to scoop the puddles and drips onto each panel and left it to cover it with as little help as necessary. Chris wielded the old creme brulee torch well, removing air bubbles and also encouraging some cell formation through applying the heat to the surface briefly in dull areas.

This is one of the small square panels coated with residue paint from the bottom of the foil tray...

From the bottom: 1. A piece of glossy photo paper coated with foil tray scrapings, 2. Our first dirty pour, 3. Our second try...for this one I coated the panel with white paint then poured a mixture of the paints across the top of the painty surface...we all like this one.

Here are three of the small square panels, all elevated on cups, the one in the top left is our third 5 x 7 panel which was a little over loaded with gold, and finally, the pieces lying on the paper are either glossy photo paper, glossy card stock or cereal box...all trials to see if anything can be salvaged from the waste paint...

My little helper photobombed this one...it was great to have assistance with the camera tripod, igniting the torch, placing newspapers et all...I think we both had fun.

We will see what they look like as they dry over the next few days...the waste paint on the various paper surface are already drying off...I can see them from where I sit at my computer.

I have a can of gloss finish ready and waiting if any of the pieces look worth finishing off...if so Chris will need to get online and order in a few canvases...we still have plenty of Floetrol left and there is plenty of exploring left for us to do in this little adventure.

Thanks for dropping by...don't forget to stop in again soon and check out the next couple of posts to see how these little pieces finish off, cross your fingies for me, ​Bye, Di

Hi Di, I saw these in the thumbnail in my email notification so I'm glad you posted your method with more photos over here, was worth coming over for a visit. These turned out incredibly detailed, you could easily sell them. Beautiful patterns. Well done the 3 of you :D
Hillie :)

Thanks Hillie, the outcome will be clearer in a day or two once they have dried...I am not sure about the quality of the paint I used, I used the best pigments I have on hand but needed to see some outcomes before I spend any more (I am having a year of minimal crafty purchasing), so we will see. Thanks for stopping by, Dxx

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Hello, I'm Di...I live in beautiful Tasmania, I enjoy making cards and journals for special folk.